Cullingworth nestles in Yorkshire's wonderful South Pennines and I have the pleasure and delight to be the village's Conservative Councillor. But these are my views - on politics, food, beer and the stupidity of those who want to tell me what to think or do. And a little on mushrooms.

Thursday, 15 November 2012

They do not give off smoke and contain no tobacco....

Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, says employers are right to be cautious given the lack of data on the long-term effects of e-cigarettes and thinks it could give employees the wrong message.

Dr Nathanson said: "They are designed to look like smoking so what they do is they renormalise the concept of smoking, just at a time when we've all got used to the fact that smoking in the workplace is not normal nor allowed."

As ever, read that carefully - e-cigs "give the wrong message". And that message is that smokers must be shunned, stigmatised, denormalised. A product that does little or no harm - even the woman from ASH Scotland on Five Live this morning admitted they were much safer than smoking - must be stopped because it looks like smoking.

2 comments:

The Thought Gang
said...

"Why on earth are the anti-smokers so opposed?"

Why.. If more and more smokers actually do give up, then they'll have fewer people to feel superior to, fewer people to boss around, and fewer sources of funding for their lucrative fussbucketing infrastructures.